Hollywood star Donald Glover is featured on the cover of GQ‘s Global Creativity Award issue, see below. The lifestyle magazine praises Glover for having “changed the course of television” with his FX series Atlanta and for laying out “a blueprint for a whole era of dark comedy.”
Get ready to see more of Glover. As seen in the video below, filmed in an orchard, Glover invites the general public to apply for a job at his new creative studio Gilga. There are a total of nine roles that need to be filled including Conversational Marketing, Strategy & Analysis (“CFO and lawyer types inquire”) and AI Prompt Animator.
Gilga could really use that Conversational Marketing professional now as many people are complaining in the comments of Glover’s Instagram post that they’re having trouble posting their applications on the Gilga website and are looking for technical help/answers. “The page says disabled I want to apply. How do we do this?” Alas, the questions are going unanswered.
[Note: By using Conversation Marketing, companies/brands provide real-time, two-way conversation with customers, e.g. a chatbot on its website’s homepage, to answer potential customer questions, shorten the sales cycle, and learn about customers.]
Glover is also receiving criticism for his decision to use A.I. animation. As one fan wrote: “This seems really cool, but I will say I think you’re making the wrong choice going with AI animation… Maybe it’s more cost effective to go with a robot, maybe it’s just what you’re into right now, but cutting real human animators out of your project in favor of something as soulless as AI is a huge mistake.”
Another chimed in: “Shocking that you’re asking for ai generators and not for actual people who can build and connect with your ideas. Hire real people.”
Glover is, of course, trying to hire people — people who will work with A.I. Indeed, he likes humans, confiding in a 2018 interview with The New Yorker that he mainly avoided social media because it made him feel “less human.”
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